Oceania >

Christmas Island - Animals in the Habitats, and Biodiversity

Classified animal picture guide. Highlighting the link of species shows the images, and clicking the link shows Evolutionary Tree.
Christmas Island is an island territory of Australia in Indian Ocean and the tropical zone. It is located 500km south of Jakarta in Indonesian Java Island. The following shows the distribution of animals in Christmas Island.
Christmas Island
Christmas Island
regionally extinct
in historic age
Rodent Maclear's Rat (5.33 Mya~AD1903), Bulldog Rat (5.33 Mya~AD1898)
Christmas Island
extant species
Megabat Black-eared Flying Fox
Owl Christmas Island Hawk-Owl
Flamingo American Flamingo  
endemic bird Christmas Island Imperial-pigeon, Christmas Island White-eye
Christmas Island
marine extant
species
Turtle Green turtle
Frigatebird Great Frigatebird, Lesser Frigatebird, Christmas Island Frigatebird
seabird Abbott's Booby
Ray Manta ray
Marlin Indo-Pacific sailfish, Black Marlin
Crab Coconut crab   (40cm)
Christmas Island
small extant
species
Mole (CR) Christmas Island Shrew
Bat (CR) Christmas Island Pipistrelle